WO2000063657A1 - Procede de mesure du niveau de remplissage et detecteur du niveau de remplissage - Google Patents

Procede de mesure du niveau de remplissage et detecteur du niveau de remplissage Download PDF

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WO2000063657A1
WO2000063657A1 PCT/DE2000/000475 DE0000475W WO0063657A1 WO 2000063657 A1 WO2000063657 A1 WO 2000063657A1 DE 0000475 W DE0000475 W DE 0000475W WO 0063657 A1 WO0063657 A1 WO 0063657A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F23/00—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm
    • G01F23/22—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water
    • G01F23/26—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water by measuring variations of capacity or inductance of capacitors or inductors arising from the presence of liquid or fluent solid material in the electric or electromagnetic fields
    • G01F23/263—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water by measuring variations of capacity or inductance of capacitors or inductors arising from the presence of liquid or fluent solid material in the electric or electromagnetic fields by measuring variations in capacitance of capacitors
    • G01F23/266—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water by measuring variations of capacity or inductance of capacitors or inductors arising from the presence of liquid or fluent solid material in the electric or electromagnetic fields by measuring variations in capacitance of capacitors measuring circuits therefor

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  • the invention relates to a method for level measurement and a level sensor with a large number of capacitive sensors arranged alongside one another along a filling path and consisting of field electrodes and diametrically opposed measuring electrodes.
  • Level sensors are used in particular in fuel tanks, e.g. B. used in motor vehicles and motorcycles.
  • fuel tanks mostly have a very irregular shape, which means that conventional potentiometer sensors can only be used to a limited extent. Their resolution and accuracy is restricted in the area of the remaining quantity or when the tank is full.
  • potentiometer sensors are susceptible to wear and can easily fail due to mechanical influences.
  • capacitive sensors are known. So z. B. in DE-AS 22 21 741 and DE-PS 25 15 065 level sensors with capacitors arranged one above the other along a filling section, which are acted upon by pulses on the field electrodes of the capacitors. The measuring electrodes are connected to a differential amplifier. The dielectric constant of the medium in which the level sensor is immersed affects the capacitance of the capacitors. In DE-AS 22 21 741, two adjacent capacitors of the same capacitance form a differential capacitor. The differential capacitors are acted upon in sequence with a pulse signal at their common electrodes, so that the output signal of the differential amplifier is zero if both capacitors belonging to a differential capacitor are in the same medium.
  • the difference signal is not equal to zero if the two capacitors are in different media.
  • the output signal of the differential amplifier is connected to a pulse counter and the number of non-zero pulses is a measure of the fill level.
  • DE-OS 49 37 927 describes a device for level measurement in which capacitors are combined into a first and at least one further group.
  • Each group contains two sub-groups of capacitors connected in parallel. Two capacitors of the same group which follow one another in the filling path direction have approximately the same capacitances with the same dielectric.
  • the subgroups of a group are each connected to a common comparison unit, which forms a digital comparison signal depending on the difference in the resulting capacities of the subgroups.
  • the resulting capacity of another subgroup serves as a reference value for the resulting capacity of one subgroup. This compensates for aging and environmental influences in the same direction.
  • the device has the disadvantage that the capacitors must have exactly the same capacitance.
  • DE-PS 31 14 678 describes a level indicator in which several measuring electrodes are combined in sections and an evaluation circuit is supplied.
  • the sensor elements have a single counter electrode.
  • the capacitors located below a liquid level are connected in parallel by the dielectric of the liquid, so that the resulting capacitance is the measure of the liquid level.
  • a reference value is therefore required to convert the measured capacity into a proportional liquid level. The reference value depends on the medium to be measured and must be recalibrated each time the container is filled. Stray capacities also occur between the Counter electrode and the measuring electrodes and between the measuring electrodes.
  • DE-OS 39 26 218 AI shows a level measuring device with which the level of inhomogeneously distributed media can be determined without calibration of a reference value.
  • the measuring electrodes are supplied to an evaluation unit as individual electrodes and are evaluated cyclically and sequentially.
  • Each capacitance value is compared in a coraperator with a reference value that is the same for electrodes of the same size.
  • DE-PS 196 44 777 C1 describes a fill level sensor in which the measuring electrodes of the capacitive sensors are individually controllable and connected to a fill level evaluation circuit. For each field, the counter electrodes of the corresponding group of capacitive sensors are connected to form a field electrode, and the field electrodes of the fields are connected to the level evaluation circuit in an individually controllable manner.
  • the stray capacities are reduced by dividing the usual one-piece counter electrodes into a large number of field electrodes.
  • the object of the invention was therefore to provide an improved method for level measurement with a large number of capacitive sensors arranged alongside one another along a filling path, and a level sensor for this purpose, by means of which the level of tanks can be determined simply and reliably, even if the tank contains unknown or different media is filled.
  • the invention is solved by the method with the steps:
  • the sensors e.g. B. capacitive sensors
  • these signals cancel each other when the acted sensors are in the same medium.
  • the measurement signals are out of phase, ie out of phase by 180 °.
  • a signal should be applied to two sensors each. As long as the sensors are in a medium with a dielectric constant 6 r ⁇ > 1, the signals compensate in phase, even if the media are different.
  • the sensors that are not loaded with a measurement signal are connected to a ground potential.
  • the measuring electrodes can each have a changeover switch with which they can be connected to the measuring signal, the phase-shifted measuring signal or the Ground potential can be placed.
  • the switches can e.g. B. controlled with a microprocessor.
  • the sensors are advantageously continuously acted upon in succession along the filling section, so that the filling section is continuously scanned.
  • the resulting signals measured at the measuring electrodes of the sensors are advantageously amplified with a summing amplifier and fed to a phase comparator for determining the phase shift.
  • the amplitude of the sum signal is additionally determined. By comparison with a reference signal, it is possible to determine the medium that surrounds the respective measuring electrode.
  • the measuring electrodes it is also advantageous to connect the measuring electrodes to the summing amplifier or to a ground potential. These switches can in turn be controlled by a microprocessor.
  • Figure 1 block diagram of the level sensor with phase and amplitude comparator
  • Figure 2 - schematic diagram of the level sensor with applied sensors that are above the medium
  • Figure 3 - schematic diagram of the level sensor with acted upon sensors which are immersed in the medium.
  • the capacitive sensors 1 are essentially formed from a multiplicity of field electrodes 2 which are arranged next to one another along the filling path for a medium.
  • a switch 3 is provided for each field electrode 2, with which the field electrode 2 can optionally be connected to a measurement signal 4, a measurement signal 5 which is 180 ° out of phase with it or a ground potential 6.
  • field electrodes 2 located at a distance from one another can also be connected to a bus line 7 and at the same time acted upon with a measurement signal. This has the advantage that the wiring effort and the need for switches 3 can be reduced.
  • measuring electrodes 8 Diametrically opposite the field electrodes 2 there are measuring electrodes 8, which work together with the field electrodes 2 as capacitive sensors 1.
  • Field electrodes 2 each have a measuring electrode 8.
  • the use of a measuring electrode 8 for four field electrodes 2 is outlined as an example.
  • the measuring electrodes 8 can each be connected to a switch 9 with either ground potential or a summing amplifier 10.
  • the output of the summing amplifier 10 is fed into a phase comparator 11 in order to supply the resulting measurement signal with a reference signal 12 to compare.
  • the lower field electrode is located
  • the resulting signal is amplified by the summing amplifier 10 and the phase shift is recognized as a measure of the fill level.
  • the summing amplifier 10 is connected to an amplitude comparator 16. This makes it possible to compare the amplitude of the resulting signal with a reference amplitude 17 and to determine the medium in which the applied sensor 1 is located.
  • the resulting signals from the phase comparator 11 and the amplitude comparator 16 can be compared with a conventional one
  • Interface interface 18 z. B. be transferred to an evaluation and control computer.
  • Figure 1 also shows the problem in conventional tanks that when measuring the fill level not only a transition from air to a medium, but also a transition between different media is detected.
  • both media are conductive, so that the phases of the measurement signals cancel each other out. Only the amplitude of the resulting sum signal can vary with a transition from two conductive media.
  • a phase shift of the signal with respect to a reference signal 12 occurs, so that a fill level is detected.
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of the level sensor, in which the acted upon sensors 1 are in air above the level 21.
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic diagram in which the measuring transducers acted upon are located in the same medium below the fill level 21.
  • the applied field electrode 2 are with a measurement signal 4 and a
  • phase shift of the resulting measured signal occurs in particular when one of the field electrodes 2 is only partially immersed in the medium.
  • the phase shift is measured and shows the level.
  • the field electrodes 2 are continuously supplied with a measurement signal in sequence along the filling path, for example with a multiplexer.
  • the area of the measuring electrode 8 is larger than that of the field electrode 2, so that the signals from a plurality of field electrodes 2 can already be tapped at a single measuring electrode 8 as a sum signal.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de mesure du niveau de remplissage comprenant plusieurs détecteurs capacitifs (1) disposés côte-à-côte le long d'un trajet de remplissage. Ce procédé consiste: à soumettre le détecteur (1) à un signal de mesure (4) et un détecteur adjacent (1) à un signal de mesure à décalage de phase (5); à mesurer les signaux résultant au niveau des détecteurs (1) exposés; à déterminer le décalage de phase entre les signaux résultants, et à déterminer le niveau de remplissage en fonction du décalage de phase.
PCT/DE2000/000475 1999-04-15 2000-02-19 Procede de mesure du niveau de remplissage et detecteur du niveau de remplissage WO2000063657A1 (fr)

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AU31466/00A AU3146600A (en) 1999-04-15 2000-02-19 Method for measuring level and level sensor
DE50007019T DE50007019D1 (de) 1999-04-15 2000-02-19 Verfahren zur füllstandsmessung und füllstandssensor
AT00909042T ATE270772T1 (de) 1999-04-15 2000-02-19 Verfahren zur füllstandsmessung und füllstandssensor
EP00909042A EP1204848B1 (fr) 1999-04-15 2000-02-19 Procede de mesure du niveau de remplissage et detecteur du niveau de remplissage

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